[pct-l] Wet feet and blisters

[leo-spencer at comcast.net (leo-spencer@comcast.net)]

Hi,
Thank you both. 
Lookout water, lookout snow, here comes Leo's feet clad in running shoes. Regarding duct tape, I used it on a JMT through-hike and never had a blister, but it did need to be replaced each time that I forded a stream.

Enjoy,

CONGRATULATIONS YOGI! TRIPLE-CROWN! WHOOOWEEE!

Leo.
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> I agree with what Ken posted. I also only wear thin liner socks with running 
> shoes, even when hiking in snow. In addition, my hiking shoes are a size bigger 
> than the shoes I wear at home. This gives my feet more wiggle room. Like Ken, 
> I also never get blisters. 
> 
> Another thing to remember about wet feet -- especially in the Sierra during 
> snowmelt -- is that your feet don't just get wet from fording streams. They 
> will get wet because often times the trail is a stream, and from postholing in 
> the snow. You will soon learn that removing your shoes to ford streams is 
> pointless, because your feet will be getting wet all day long anyway. Plus, 
> when you stop to take your shoes off the mosquitos will feast on you. 
> 
> At least when your feet are always wet, they're also always clean! :) 
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From: res46 at cornell.edu (Rebecca Emily Selling)
Date: Thu Dec  2 14:27:15 2004
Subject: [pct-l] Wet feet and blisters
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Yeah, you're feet will be wet the entire time you are in the high sierra. 
Make sure to keep your feet dry and clean though as much as possible.  If
you do get blisters and lance them (which I think most people do), they
are really prone to infection if your feet are constantly wet.  I had a
different problem of an in-grown toenail that got infected right around
Pinchot pass.  I couldn't control the infection at all because my feet
were always wet, so I had to get off trail at Mammoth Lakes, where I
wasn't originally planning on stopping (awesome town though, the doctor
there is super nice and the outfitter is awesome.  Plus I got major trail
magic that involved a cushy bed, monster ceasar salad with steak, ride to
the trail and a hot shower with good water pressure, mmmmmm)  Anyway, most
people I was with in the high sierra didn't have too many blisters, but do
watch out for infection.
-Peaches, '04


> I agree with what Ken posted.  I also only wear thin liner socks with
> running shoes, even when hiking in snow.  In addition, my hiking shoes are
> a size bigger than the shoes I wear at home.  This gives my feet more
> wiggle room.  Like Ken, I also never get blisters.
>
> Another thing to remember about wet feet -- especially in the Sierra
> during snowmelt -- is that your feet don't just get wet from fording
> streams.  They will get wet because often times the trail is a stream, and
> from postholing in the snow.  You will soon learn that removing your shoes
> to ford streams is pointless, because your feet will be getting wet all
> day long anyway.  Plus, when you stop to take your shoes off the mosquitos
> will feast on you.
>
> At least when your feet are always wet, they're also always clean! :)
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